AnswR vs Hey Jodie

Flat-rate AI receptionist with unlimited minutes on every plan. We make one of these two products, so here is the deal: every figure below comes from Hey Jodie's own website with a link and a date, and there is a section further down on when they are the better pick.

Details checked: 25 July 2026

Side by side

	AnswR	Hey Jodie
Entry price	Pay As You Go from $19 setup + $0.75/min ($25 initial balance included); Starter $99/mo; Professional $199/mo; Business $399/mo; Enterprise custom source, 25 Jul 2026	Basic A$99/month; Professional A$199/month; Premium A$399/month; Enterprise from A$1,000/month source, 25 Jul 2026
Setup fee	Included — setup, AI configuration and a dedicated phone number source, 25 Jul 2026	None — "There are no setup fees or hidden costs." source, 25 Jul 2026
Free trial	7-day free trial source, 25 Jul 2026	7 days free, no credit card required source, 25 Jul 2026
Minutes	Starter 200 min ($0.60/min over); Professional 500 min ($0.50/min over); Business 1,500 min ($0.40/min over); Enterprise unlimited source, 25 Jul 2026	Unlimited minutes on all plans; month-to-month, cancel anytime source, 25 Jul 2026
Integrations	Jobber, ServiceM8, Klippa, Simpro (Professional); Xero, Cliniko, HubSpot CRM (Business); custom integrations on Enterprise source, 25 Jul 2026	Via Zapier on all plans; full API access with webhooks on Enterprise source, 25 Jul 2026

When Hey Jodie is the better choice

We would rather you pick the right tool than churn off ours in a month.

You take a lot of calls. Their A$99 plan includes unlimited minutes; AnswR Starter is the same A$99 but includes 200 minutes and then charges $0.60/min. Past roughly 200 minutes a month, Hey Jodie is the cheaper bill and the gap widens from there.
You want one predictable number on the invoice every month with no usage variable at all.

Where AnswR differs

AnswR integrates natively with Jobber, ServiceM8, Simpro, Xero, Cliniko and HubSpot. Hey Jodie routes integrations through Zapier below the Enterprise tier, which means another subscription and another thing to maintain.
AnswR has a pay-as-you-go tier for lines that take a handful of calls a month, where any $99 flat fee is poor value.

Integrations, side by side

AnswR: Jobber, ServiceM8, Klippa, Simpro (Professional); Xero, Cliniko, HubSpot CRM (Business); custom integrations on Enterprise source, 25 Jul 2026
Hey Jodie: Via Zapier on all plans; full API access with webhooks on Enterprise source, 25 Jul 2026

How we put this together. Everything above about other providers was read from their own public websites on 25 Jul 2026, and each fact links to the page it came from. We only list things they publish themselves — price, setup fee, stated trial, named integrations — and we do not make claims about how well anyone else's product works. Providers change their pricing without telling us. If something here is out of date or wrong, email [email protected] and we will fix it.

Hear AnswR answer your own phone

7-day free trial, setup and onboarding included, cancel anytime. Then judge it against Hey Jodie on your real calls.